New MS install is slow to an extreme

[Martyn Routley]

Julian Field wrote:
>
>
> Martyn Routley wrote:
> > DAve wrote:
> >> Martyn Routley wrote:
> >>> DAve wrote:
> >>>> DAve wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I moved the incoming dir to a tmpfs mount (mdmfs on freebsd) no
> >>>> change in processing time.
> >>>>
> >>>> I am getting really stumped now.
> >>>>
> >>>> DAve
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> What is your hardware?
> >>> We had random processing times when running 6.2 on one of our
> >>> servers. (Single  P4 dual core)
> >>> I upgraded in place to 7.0 (using FreeBsd Update
> >>> (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html) and now the
> >>> emails don't touch the sides.
> >>> Getting Sophos to work was a bind though.
> >>>
> >> Interesting, do you know the upgrade helped? I am always leery of
> >> "upgrade" as a solution unless I know why the upgrade is the solution.
> >>
> >> Server 1
> >> Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz Quad Core
> >> 2GB ram
> >> Quatum Atlas SCSI drives, one for the system and one for the spool dir
> >>
> >> Server 2
> >> Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz Quad Core
> >> 2GB ram
> >> Maxtor SATA drives, one for the system and one for the spool dir
> >>
> >> DAve
> >>
> > Good question.
> > All that changed was the os version and the fact that I rebuilt all
> > installed ports.
> So, in short, you changed "everything" :-)
> > The server went from a 5 minute av of 7+ to 3.5 or less and from
> > having 30 + messages waiting to be processed to having MailScanner
> > waiting for messages most of the time.
> > MS config/version didn't change
> > I don't discount the possibility that rebuilding all of the installed
> > ports helped.
>
> Sounds like it's sorted out then, and not really MailScanner's fault
> after all :-) :-)
>
> Jules
>
Did I imply that? If it seemed like I did, I humbly apologise.
What I omitted from the earlier message was that there have been reports 
of "Dramatic" improvements in multi processor operation over previous 
versions (see the FreeBsd announcement referred to above.)
-- 

Martyn Routley


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